Month: April 2020

Written by ZacharyST

Crawling Followers with Intelligent Stopping

Like almost every other academic, I have started a Covid-19 project.  I think my team has a unique angle because of the kind of data I collect.  One dynamic we are interested in is patterns of following, and being able to analyze that across enough accounts required me to work with Twitter endpoints I have […]

Written by ZacharyST

My Ongoing Twitter Collections

I recently spent a lot of time reviewing my Twitter data collection infrastructure in order to start some more collections.  In that process, I discovered some tokens and streams I forgot about.  The purpose of this post is to document what data I am collecting as of 04.29.2020 so that I have an easy reference […]